[Chicago] python tee shirts, etc

[Chris McAvoy]

Why 144?  That's such a weird number.

I love it when a company isn't afraid to set limits at strange numbers.

Chris

On 7/30/07, Harper Reed <harper at nata2.org> wrote:
> Since i work for a t-shirt company i thought maybe it would be a good time
> to jump in:
>
> Shirts are relatively easy. Cafepress blows. Well - they are awesome for
> quick one offs and what not. But if you want a good quality print or
> t-shirt, you will have to have it done at a professional screen printing
> place. It shouldn't be too hard to gauge how many people are interested and
> then make an order.
>
> Chicago has a bundle of great screen printers.
>
> At threadless we use a place called Shirts our business
> (http://www.sobltd.com/). They are really solid. The only catch is that you
> have to have a batch of 144 or more before they will print anything. We also
> use sharprint ( http://www.sharprint.com/), although i think they also have
> a minimum order. If 144 is too many (it probably is) then
> propaganda(http://www.propagandatshirts.com/ ) is pretty
> decent.
>
> Any of those places could help move art from computer to shirt and help
> scale and color it appropriately.
>
> Hope this is helpful.
>
> -harper
>
>
>  On 7/30/07, Atul Varma <varmaa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is Chipy-specific, so it may not be exactly what you're looking
> > for, but here goes:
> >
> > Back in February, Brantley Harris drew a really cool ChiPy image,
> > which consisted of a chipmunk with a Python on a leash, and I
> > embellished it with a logo and put it on a long-sleeve T-Shirt:
> >
> >
> http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/product.aspx?clear=true&number=109266329
> >
> > Some more options that I came up with at the time can be found here:
> >
> >
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/chicago/2007-February/001704.html
> >
> > I really need to order myself up one of those.  I would ask if anyone
> > else wants a copy, but since it's on cafepress, I guess you can all
> > just order it from there if you want one.
> >
> > - Atul
> >
> > On 7/30/07, Doug Harvey <doug.harvey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > A guy that works with me just recently started using Python and really
> > > likes it; most other developers around here still only use bash+awk,
> > > just to give you an idea.
> > >
> > > Anyway, I thought it would be fun to get him some sort of python tee
> > > shirt or pin, etc.  I did a bit of google searching and really
> > > couldn't find any site that sells "python powered" shirts or other
> > > paraphernalia.
> > >
> > > Anyone know of such a site?
> > >
> > > doug
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